Anne Sexton Quotes

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• I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

  Anne Sexton

  Mind, Maps, Kind

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

  Anne Sexton

  Who I Am, Personality, Imperfection

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• Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, People, Faults

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

  Anne Sexton

  Soul, Sometimes

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• As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

  Anne Sexton

  Said, Concealed, Has Beens

  Anne Sexton, “Small Wire”

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• Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

  Anne Sexton

  Love, Fall, Heart

  Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

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• Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

  Anne Sexton

  Bruises, Language, Daisies

  Anne Sexton, “Words”

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• As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

  Anne Sexton

  Watercolors

  "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife" l. 47 (1969)

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• Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Open Heart, Surgery

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

  Anne Sexton

  Book, People

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sanest thing in this world is love.

  Anne Sexton

  Positive Thinking, Thinking, World

  Anne Sexton, Webster's II Dictionaries, Lois Ames (1979). “Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters”, Mariner Books

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• Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

  Anne Sexton

  Prayer, Fall, Love Is

  Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

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• The joy that isn't shared dies young.

  Anne Sexton

  Happiness, Joy, Inner Peace

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• I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

  Anne Sexton

  Crazy, Knowing, Kind

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• I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Self, Stranger

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Writing, Born

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• Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

  Anne Sexton

  Eye, Confession, Terrible

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.

  Anne Sexton

  Soul, Skins, Found

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• The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Fog, Sea

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.

  Anne Sexton

  Kissing, Rust, Mouths

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

  Anne Sexton

  White, Littles, Nightmare

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• I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

  Anne Sexton

  Hunting, Secret, Might

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• It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

  Anne Sexton

  Death, Daughter, Fathers Day

  "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

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• All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Husband, White

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